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...date on which the 12th theme in English 5 will be due has been postponed until next Friday. The 13th theme will be due April 18th, subject, a story for children...
...week's Nation reviews Professor Greenough's edition of the last six books of Virgil's Aeneid and the Georgics, and Dr. Peabody's translation of "Cicero de Officis." In a view of an English edition of the 'Trinummus' of Plautus the presentation of the play at Westminster School is characterized as a performance which "will light up the 'Trinummus' wonderfully, even for those who read it under the Pope Professor at Harvard College...
...formerly the custom for the instructors in themes and forensics to reserve books in the English Alcove, which treated in a more or less direct manner the subjects given out to the students in these courses. Within a year or two, this practice which was often very advantageous to the students has been entirely given up, and the students are at present obliged to seek for any information upon the subjects of their themes or forensics which they find. Often the library contains a book which affords special facilities for obtaining a good idea of the subject. If this were...
...that she has a number of men-of-letters will hardly be denied even by those who refuse to admit that there is a literature which can be characterized as peculiarly American. The relative merits of this body of men-of-letters as compared with a similar body of English or French writers is a question that we can hardly be expected to discuss. A correspondent of the Critic asks why America should not have an institution similar to the French academy. He feels sure that America has forty living literary men who are worthy of being classed among...
...scholars shall never use their mother tongue, except that in public exercise of oratory, or such like, they be called to make them in English...